What crisis-ridden Team Sky must do to restore their shredded credibility

It might seem incongruous given recent events but late in 2012 Dave Brailsford took soundings among journalists as he sought to “reboot” Team Sky in the wake of the Lance Armstrong doping scandal. I was among those whose views he asked for. At the time Brailsford was going through something of a crisis over quite how to implement the team’s zero tolerance of past doping offences and the connections with those in the milieu who had a doping past.
I forwarded Brailsford some ideas and I am sure the mere fact I did this will be cited by some as a classic example of a journalist getting far too... read more

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